Why is New Year's Day a legal holiday?

The origin of New Year's Day can be traced back to the period of Three Emperors and Five Emperors. What many people don't know is that people abroad actually celebrate New Year's Day.

In fact, New Year's Day can be traced back to the period of Three Emperors and Five Emperors. It is said that at that time, Emperor Yao was diligent and loved the people, and did many good things for the people all his life. However, Yao's son is a loser, so he didn't pass on the tribe to his son, but chose Shun, who is noble in character and outstanding in ability. Before Yao died, he also told Shun to pass on his seat to people with both ability and political integrity. Later, Shun gave his seat to Yu, who had made contributions to water control. In fact, these leaders are very friendly to the people and have done a lot of good things. Later, people took the day when Shun offered sacrifices to Yao as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first month was called "New Year's Day", which is the origin of New Year's Day.

In modern times, that is, 19 1 1 year, when Sun Yat-sen established the Republic of China. From the first year of the Republic of China, it was decided to use the Gregorian calendar, and the Gregorian calendar 1 was designated as "New Year's Day", but it was not called "New Year's Day". Later, the government of the Republic of China called the first day of the first lunar month "Spring Festival" and the Gregorian calendar 1 day "New Year's Day", which is the origin of modern New Year's Day in China.

So, when was New Year's Day designated as a legal holiday?

Actually, it should be 1949, which was on September 27th, 1949. At that time, the first China People's Political Consultative Conference decided to establish the People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), and also decided to adopt the universal calendar, namely the solar calendar. New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first year of the year.

It is worth mentioning that at that time, in order to distinguish the two New Years, the state renamed the first day of the first month of the summer calendar as the Spring Festival, and took the Gregorian calendar 1 1 as the beginning of the New Year, that is, New Year's Day, and included it as a legal holiday. Since then, New Year's Day has become a national statutory holiday.

Of course, foreign countries also have New Year's Day, and in many countries in the world, New Year's Day is also a legal holiday in these countries. On this day, many foreigners will also celebrate it.